IMS HEALTH INC. v. MILLS

No. 08-1248.

616 F.3d 7 (2010)

IMS HEALTH INCORPORATED, Verispan, LLC, and Source Healthcare Analytics, Inc., a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Janet T. MILLS, as Attorney General for the State of Maine, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 4, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Knowlton, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Janet T. Mills, Attorney General of the State of Maine, Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, Nancy Macirowski, Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas C. Bradley, Assistant Attorney General, were on brief for appellants.

Thomas C. Goldstein, with whom Thomas R. Julin, Jamie Z. Isani, Patricia Acosta, Hunton & Williams LLP, Jack H. Montgomery, Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A., Mark A. Ash, and Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP, were on brief for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

This case involves constitutional challenges to a Maine statute enacted to reduce health care costs and protect prescribers' data privacy. In Maine and elsewhere, each time a prescription from a physician or other licensed prescriber is given to a pharmacy, the pharmacy obtains a number of facts that identify the prescriber. Data put together from multiple transactions involving the same prescriber reveal certain patterns and preferences, including...

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